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The EmergeWiki is designed to

crowdsource and synthesize vast and diverse sources of information
to distill these into actionable Clinical Recommendations and other policy statements and best practices on how to skillfully relate to the deep end of human experience — what many would term spiritual, mystical, magical/psi, energetic, psychedelic, and related phenomena and effects which we term Emergent Phenomena, Experiences and Effects (EPEEs).
in a way that promotes good outcomes.

The EmergeWiki's main goal is to facilitate sophisticated understandings of Emergent Phenomena and the vast range of consequences of Emergent Modalities up to and including doctoral and post-doctoral levels. To that end it will compile information from the various traditions, cultures, religions, etc. with them representing themselves as they wish to be represented, consider this through the lens of patterns in a way that may have clinical applicability, and attempt the difficult, ongoing conversation of how to translate this diverse body of information into actionable clinical recommendations that scale and make a positive difference. Thus, it is a continuation of a vast and complicated conversation that has occurred for millennia across diverse traditions, languages, cultures, and locations, but with the specific goal of supporting actionable, clinical information today. It is no substitute for human judgement and expertise, but may support it.

You can learn more about the EmergeWiki here.

For contributors

Information for contributors can be found here. If you are working on the EmergeWiki then please visit the Base page for an outline of the design and work phases, and links to a list of tasks for Phase 1. We are also building a MediaWiki orientation.

Organization

Overall Structure

Overall, EmergeWiki is divided into three main layers: Traditions, Synthesis, and Clinical, each with its own purpose, culture, moderators, standards, and requirements.

Traditions: A space for the traditions, such as religions, academic disciplines, spiritual practices, related communities, etc. to represent themselves as they wish to be known, with their own ontological, epistemic, soteriological, linguist, cultural, practical, etc. aspects explained as they are and as they wish to be known and understood by the clinical, scientific, public health, and public mainstreams, with a focus on Emergent Phenomena. This is the most encyclopedic aspect of EmergeWiki.
Synthesis: A space to explore, debate, discuss, and synthesize the patterns, commonalities, differences, phenomenology, meta-ontologics, meta-epistemics, etc. that we find in the Traditions Namespace. This is a place to form and forge in the fires of diverse human attention taxonomies, typologies, lexicons, etc. and to engage in all the rich, messy, human, imperfect, earnest conversation required to form and inform the Clinical Namespace. This space is the least encyclopedic in terms of simply describing things as they are on their own terms, but also most operational, the most complicated, the most controversial, and is designed to be a melting pot of ideas, a way to be transparent about the conversation that flows organically from the Traditions to refinements and simplifications found in Clinical recommendations.
Clinical: A space for formal clinical recommendations. Think of this as a space that could form the basis and perhaps body of a doctoral level subspecialty that owned and furthered functional, practical, clinically applicable doctoral-level knowledge of Emergent Phenomena. This is the most tightly moderated, carefully controlled section of EmergeWiki. Think of it as where the textbook of the specialty is written in a refined form, informed by the previous two layers, and, while being aware of the controversies and complexities, the areas of ignorance and ambiguity, yet, still, striving for definitive recommendations to inform beneficial, ethical, respectful global standards of care that improve outcomes that could be tested on a subspecialty board exam.

Beyond this, EmergeWiki has numerous interlacing aspects to accommodate diverse data types and the diverse organizational needs those who wish to interact efficiently with that data. This organizational structure will evolve organically over time as the project grows.

Disciplines

Disciplines are a way of relating to EmergeWiki content based on the academic discipline(s) that cover it. Some closely align with EPRC Projects, e.g. the academic discipline of Anthropologyclosely relating to the Anthropology Project, but other disciplines may have more complex relationships to the information here, such as theoretical and applied Medical Ethics which may interface with a wide range of Projects and other organizational structures.

Traditions

Traditions mean various religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions, and represent another way of organizing and relating to EmergeWiki content based on the Source Traditions that began this conversation thousands of years ago and may continue it to today.

Specialties

Specialties, in this case Clinical Specialties, are a way of relating to and organizing the information in the EmergeWiki through the lens of the particular scope of the specialty in question. Closely related to the framework of Clinical Specialties is the resultant Clinical Recommendations which are a key output and product of EmergeWiki.

Thematic domains

The Multidimensional Framework integrates a wide range of lenses and focuses, and can be used as an alternative way of relating to the information in the EmergeWiki.

Donate

EmergeWiki is offered freely, in the legal and ethical spirit of the Good Samaritan, public good, open source, and open science, in an effort to further the mandates of contemporary medical ethics as they apply to the deep end of human experience and potential.

In that same spirit, if you wish to support the building and maintenance of the EmergeWiki specifically or the work of Emergence Benefactors and the EPRC and its allies in general, please donate here. Thanks!